Doe v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 1275 · 1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 5 U.S.C. § 7352 · 5 U.S.C. § 7532 · 5 U.S.C. § 7533 · 50 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 101 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 831 · 50 U.S.C. § 832
Relies on Vitarelli v. Seaton · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · United Savings Ass'n of Texas v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Inc. · Cole v. Young · Ticor Title Insurance v. Federal Trade Commission
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessary or advisable in the interests of national security.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the present law, with respect to [the Departments of State and Defense,] the officer or employee who is suspended or terminated as a security risk is not entitled as a matter of right to an appeal to the head of the agency concerned. This legislation extends this appeal right to employees [of these agencies].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlucci v. Doe“the procedures prescribed in other provisions of law that authorize the termination . . . cannot be invoked consistently with the national security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlucci v. Doe
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.